He claims to be concerned about free speech.

How many journalists has your boss murdered?

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      Of the ~3.3 million characters you have typed on lemmy, 133 of them have been an emdash.

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          I scraped all their comments directly from their user page with a selenium script, dumped them into a text file and opened that in Libre Office.

          … I am elegance personified. Someone hire me to work on your codebase.

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          It looks like there’s been 1 emdash out of the ~306,100 characters you’ve typed on lemmy.

          (I’m having some trouble with the API (I am spamming the hell out of it to get these numbers so I should probably stop…), I may be missing some of your comments.)

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            I don’t use them on my phone (android), but I use them whenever I type on a word processor. Word, LibreOffice, or any every other office suite most academics and scientists use (Google Docs being the exception, though idk anyone who uses Google Docs after undergrad) automatically converts punctuation with two dashes sans spaces–like this–to an em dash. Google Docs converts to an en dash. Not saying he’s using a word processor, just saying why they show up so much in longer forms of writing.

            More relevant to this post: My wife uses an iPhone, and her phone automatically converts two hyphens sans spaces to an em dash. It’s completely possible he’s using an iPhone, which makes em dashes trivially easy to use.

            It’s a good grammatical tool. Were my phone able to do the automatic conversion, I’d use it in basically every Lemmy post I write. Please don’t contribute to the perception that proper use of good punctuation means AI.

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                Yes, it should be quite clear from my comment that I can’t type em dashes on my phone. I only use Lemmy on my phone.

                Were you to scrape my published papers–either published up until now or published before 2020–you’d see evidence that I have to forcibly edit my writing down to a rate of one or fewer em dashes per two sentences. My grad students joke about how frequently I use them.

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                  So… what’s your point? Your only contribution to the data that I have access to is far more supportive of the position that “good punctuation means AI” than any other example in this thread.

                  I want to highlight that I’ve never actually said anything about what this data might indicate; any conclusions, value judgements or wild guesses as to what this data might show are entirely your own (and those assumptions should probably be examined). I don’t really care that you don’t have access to an emdash on mobile lemmy (you do btw, markdown will replace --- with an emdash), I don’t really care about this topic, I was just having fun scraping data to gently tease someone about their typing habits.

                  Please don’t contribute to a hostile environment where you ascribe deeper motivations to dumb comments.

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      Don’t even have to long press hyphen — doubling a hyphen will get autocompleted to an em dash. I don’t even know how to type two hyphens in a row without iOS converting it to an em dash.